- Friday, February 28, 2025
Yami Gautam is presently riding high on the success of her latest release, A Thursday. The Behzad Khambata directorial sees her in the role of a playschool teacher who holds 16 students hostage and puts a series of demands. The actress has been winning raves for her power-packed performance in the film…
The Curve Theatre in Leicester is putting on three plays this summer to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Ugandan Asian refugees in Britain. The plays are being written by three people – Chandni Mistry, Ashok Patel and Dilan Raithatha – whose families and friends were caught up…
BRITISH entrepreneur and YouTube star Jamal Edwards has died at the age of 31, his company has informed. He was the founder of SBTV, a music platform that helped launch stars like Dave, Ed Sheeran and Skepta, the BBC reported. Edwards was born in Luton and was appointed MBE in 2014 for services to…
INDIA’S home minister said he favoured students wearing uniforms in school rather than any religious attire, but that his position might change once a court decides on the merits of a ban on the hijab in schools in the state of Karnataka. The ban imposed by Karnataka on Feb. 5…
SRI LANKA shipped out to Britain on Monday (21) the last of several hundred containers filled with thousands of tons of illegally imported waste, officials said. Several Asian countries have in recent years been pushing back against an onslaught of refuse from wealthier nations and have started turning back unwanted…
A LARGE number of illegally imported drugs in Switzerland are found to have been sent from India, a Swiss government agency said on Monday (21). They included medicines connected with Covid-19, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as also erectile stimulants. In its annual update, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic) said…
HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS (HGS) said its UK arm has bagged a contract worth Rs 21 billion (£210 million) to provide critical customer support to British citizens for two years. HGS UK Ltd bagged the contract from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which is responsible for NHS Test and Trace. The…
INDIA’S head coach Rahul Dravid is not “hurt” by Wriddhiman Saha revealing the “difficult” conversation that the two had about his future as he firmly believes that the veteran keeper-batter “deserved the honesty and clarity” which was provided to him. Saha, whose India career has come to a halt, recently…
INDIA beat West Indies by 17 runs in the third and final Twenty20 international thanks to a brilliant innings by Suryakumar Yadav at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens on Sunday (20) to win the series 3-0. West Indies will fly home without a single victory on the tour having also lost the…
Ritwik Bhowmik delivered a breakout performance in his well-received Amazon Prime Video show Bandish Bandits (2020). He followed it up with yet another successful show The Whistleblower, which premiered on SonyLIV last year. The actor is happy that the audience accepted him in both roles and promises to maintain versatility in every upcoming project.…
